“to someone from nowhere, every movement turns into a return”
― Flights
― Flights
“They weren’t real travelers: they left in order to return. And they were relieved when they got back, with a sense of having fulfilled an obligation.”
― Flights
― Flights
“I wasn’t in a hurry. I never have to be in any particular place at any particular time. Let time watch me, not me it.”
― Flights
― Flights
“Move. Get going. Blessed is he who leaves.”
― Flights
― Flights
“In a certain sense this was true, and truth is always true in a certain sense;”
― Flights
― Flights
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